Patrick OConnor, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Guest columnist Patrick O’Connor: Youth athletes deserve better than racism

by Patrick OConnor November 1, 2024

We need to differentiate between general bad behavior in youth sports and outright racism.Yes, some parents and coaches lose their composure, behaving poorly at games. But that’s not what our Holyoke athletes are facing.In the past two weeks, the…

Guest columnist Patrick O’Connor: Middle-class indifference remains the real crime

by Patrick OConnor July 23, 2024

Guest columnist Patrick O’Connor: Out of school and in jail

by Patrick OConnor January 17, 2024

Guest columnist Patrick O’Connor: How much we’ve lost by having just one new school

by Patrick OConnor November 19, 2023

Members of law enforcement stand near police tape while investigating the scene where multiple people were shot, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Holyoke. State police say at least three people, including a pregnant woman riding a bus, were shot Wednesday in Holyoke following a fight on a downtown street. The woman’s baby died.

Guest columnist Patrick O’Connor: More of the same means more death in Holyoke

by Patrick OConnor October 11, 2023

Holyoke City Hall

Guest columnist Patrick O’Connor: Officials paid handsomely, yet poor kids can’t get bus to school

by Patrick OConnor September 11, 2023

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Guest columnist Patrick O’Connor: Competing against bias — Playing soccer in white communities

by Patrick OConnor April 14, 2023

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Guest Columnist Patrick O’Connor: An anti-democratic power-grab in Holyoke

by Patrick OConnor November 22, 2021

In this June 2 file photo in Holyoke, protesters kneel and raise their arms in front of the police station during a protest, march and vigil against racial injustice and police brutality.

Guest columnist Patrick O’Connor: When protests die down, remember Holyoke

by Patrick OConnor June 22, 2020

Bonnie Spencer and her granddaughter Tanner Abolin, 4, of Hampton Ponds, pass by the hydrangeas on High Street in front of Holyoke City Hall in September.

By Patrick O’Connor: A love letter to Holyoke

by Patrick OConnor November 26, 2019